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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 July 1872, Page 2

Great Britain has followed up her annexation of the African gold-fields with that of the Dutch possessions in Guinea. The treaty by which the King of the Netherlands gives up this colony has just been signed, despite the earnest objections of the people and press of Holland and the people of Guinea, who sent a deputation to protest against it all the way to the Fatherland. For its acquisition England pays a large sum of money, and annuls some treaty stipulations by which the Netherlands were prevented from occupying the great Malayan Island of Sumatra, so that is a mutually advantageous bargain. This treaty makes England the first of European nations in African colonies. Her foreign subjects number 187,000,000, and they occupy 6,000,000 square miles of the globe ; but they are not, on the whole, a source of strength to the mother country.—."Times." How to Rear Calves without Milk. — At the ordinary held at Congleton on the recent fair day, Mr. Taylor, the landlord of the Lion and Swan Inn, explained to the company, who were principally farmers, a very economical method, as adopted by himself, of rearing calves without milk. Subjoined is Mr. Taylor's plan of operation : Soon after a cow calves some oatmeal is scalded, mixed with common brown sugar, and made into I balls about the size of a hen's egg, one or two of the balls being given three times a day to the calf, which sucks them and swallows them greedily. After the first three days the calf is fed by the hand, and in small quantities, with chopped hay, mixed with bean or barley j meal, scalded. The calf, after a few trials, eats the mixture voraciously. After the first three days, too, one quart of thin meal gruel is given to each calf. The young stock, for which Mr. Taylor obtains remarakbly good prices, feed better than those fed in the old way; no noise or bleating is heard among them. They are free from sickness and swelling. They grow rapidly, and are soon turned out to grass. Mr. Taylor stated that he had reared twelve calves each year for the last twelve years in this manner, thus effecting a larger saving of milk, which, as he had two or three cows only, was all required for the use of his hotel, whilst the plan only involved him in a little extra trouble for the first few days.—Field."

A mother, who had with her a little daughter, was examining the figure of a horse on a tombstone, and wondering of what it was an emblem, There was nothing to explain it in the inscription. ' 'Ma,'' said the little one, as th«y moved away, "I shouldn't wonder if she died of nightmare." Olive Logan commenced one of her lecturee at Newark, recently, with the remark, "whenever I see a pretty girl I want to clasp her in my arms." "So do we,'' shouted the boys in the gallery. For a moment Olive was nonplussed, but recovering her self-possession, she replied, ""Well, boys, I don't blame you,"